Donald Trump announced on Twitter this morning that the National Guard is standing by in Minneapolis. The Guard is ready to be deployed to quell the riots stemming from righteous anger over the death of George Floyd. The only sensible question is: why has it taken so long?
President Trump ought to be the tough but moral leader the city needs right now, but his initial response was just as spineless as the rest. When the protests first started, Trump was busy tweeting about Joe Scarborough’s dead intern. As the city burned, he whined about Twitter fact-checking him on voter fraud and had his administration quickly draft an executive order on social media. It wasn’t until after two full days of ‘fire and fury’ that the President addressed the situation, again doing so by tweet. He divisively promised that ‘when the looting starts the shooting starts.’ Is this the best we can expect from the man who promised to police the border, shut down sanctuary cities, and blamed Obama’s weak leadership for the unrest in Ferguson?
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